Mike Tovey

...Transport design refers to passenger land transport, that is, it excludes freight, air, and water transport.The role of the designer here is to approach design for transport from the point of view of the user. People have a collection...

Carla Cesare

...George Gough
Booth and his wife Elaine Scripps Booth founded the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1925 as a school for boys (later an adjacent girls’ school), and they quickly joined forces with Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen not only...

Brian Clough

...What is automotive design?
Automotive design is a highly specialized segment of industrial design concerned with the visual design, or styling, of the exterior and interior of motor cars, and with aspects of human factors...

Gerry Beegan

...IBM is a multinational corporation that has been particularly innovative in computer hardware and software. The business is notable in terms of the design of its products and of the attention it has devoted to its own corporate design....

Farhan S. Karim

...At the end of British rule in 1947, India departed from the colonial approach to product design that had long represented Indian products as embodiments of perpetual values confronting the industrial West. During the two decades following...

James Slauson

...The 1951 Festival of Britain, which was held halfway between the two New York World’s Fairs of 1939 and 1964, constituted a cultural barometer of modern design at mid-century that came to be known as Contemporary Style (also Mid-Century...

Sarah Kettley

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Tiffany Washington

...Organic Design refers to both an aesthetic style and a design movement, which draw on nature for their process and contextualization within a natural setting. Rounded and expressive forms, asymmetrical lines, free-flowing curves, linear...

Heather Gibson Moqtaderi

...Herman Miller, Inc. revolutionized design in the mid-twentieth century through the production of modern furnishings for the home and office. The company was established as the Star Furniture Co. in 1905 in Zeeland, Michigan, and originally...

Clive Edwards

...The Vitra furniture company and its owner, Rolf Fehlbaum, founded the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein in 1989. Although the Museum has one of the world’s leading collections of modern furniture indicating all the chief periods...

...Charles and Ray Eames were an American husband and wife design team who did much to define the aesthetic of postwar modernity, particularly in the United States through the success of their plywood molding system and design projects....

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